Abacus Solutions Blog

  AS/400 disaster recovery  comprises procedures, tools, and policies that make it possible to recover important systems and technology infrastructure after a disaster has occurred. Companies should always be prepared for such scenarios since they often occur unexpectedly. When it comes to disaster recovery, it is possible to utilize the IBM Power Systems since they may prove highly valuable, especially when handling critical applications. Some of the available  IBM i disaster recovery  options will be discussed in this context. Formulating an IBM i Disaster Recovery Strategy Based on A Company’s Recovery Objectives As a business owner, some of the factors that you should consider when looking into establishing recovery objectives include: Recovery Point Objective (RPO) : Always consider the amount of data a company is willing to lose. Look into how the company data is backed up. Also, when a disaster takes place, how much data will be lost. Recovery Time Objective (...

  The PaaS provider wants to go above and beyond to protect its customers   Companies across a variety of industries are beginning to understand the benefits of security compliance, both internally and within partnered organizations. To reflect an increase in IT security breaches, the number of regulatory standards for information security management has grown. Abacus Solutions recognizes this industry trend as the “new normal,” one that will become increasingly complex as more compliances are required for businesses to operate in the PaaS provider space. When customers transition to the  Abacus Cloud , they’re moving critical business applications from  on-premise IBM i infrastructure  to an  AS/400 cloud environment . Chief Operations Officer, Thomas Harris, reflected on how ensuring the security of customer data became more than a checkbox to tick; it became a company culture shift. “Data security is critical to the ongoing operations of our customers. I...

  Slow and steady growth of IBM i cloud deployments mean customers feel more comfortable running critical business applications in the cloud   While more  IBM i  shops are transitioning to the cloud environments, the percentage of them that involve production business applications or ERP systems is still relatively small. When business-critical systems are in the cloud, they’re much more likely to run in private clouds – or better yet, in a co-lo setup where the customer’s Power Systems server is moved into the private cloud provider’s data center.   Most IBM i shops moving to the cloud prefer the PaaS approach, especially when it comes to for business-critical workloads, says Patrick Schutz, the chief sales officer of Abacus Solutions, which runs hundreds of IBM i environments in its private cloud. What I’ve seen from the other providers is they’re trying to do more of an IaaS offering and trying to do it from a quantity. We provide platform as a service. You’r...

  A new data center partner gives Abacus customers better DR capability, and more data processing options   QTS Metro Atlanta | Image courtesy of QTS Data Centers About three years ago, Abacus decided it needed to upgrade its  AS/400 disaster recovery  (DR) capability. The search for a new data center partner brought it to QTS, and while Abacus had originally set out to find a suitable DR site, after seeing the huge  QTS Metro facility  in its hometown of Atlanta, Abacus decided to migrate production as well. Starting in 2018, Abacus stood up its DR site in  QTS’s Irving, TX data center , followed by the production move to QTS Metro. Migrating hundreds of IBM i customers was a big undertaking and required careful coordination by its project management team to ensure as little downtime as possible. The entire process took over a year to complete. With the move to a new data center, Abacus cloud customers have entered a new cloud ecosystem that expands t...